Charles George is the senior partner and founder of the George Law Firm LLC. He concentrates in Admiralty and Maritime, Corporate, Complex Civil Litigation, and Criminal law. Charles manages the George Law Firm LLC Corporate Law practice representing clients in all of their business needs including litigation matters, intellectual property development and securitization mergers and acquisitions, contracts, licensing, crisis management, asset recovery, and the negotiation of leases and other business agreements. Charles has successfully completed a civil mediation-training program approved by the South Carolina Board of Arbitrator and Mediator Certification.

Charles is an investment banker and has more than twenty (20) years of experience representing clients searching for private equity funding to venture capital organizations and has successfully formulated, negotiated, and implemented strategies and funding contracts to provide for venture capital, growth capital, recapitalization funding, and mergers and acquisitions funding. He has developed successful strategies for business recapitalization, business turn-a rounds, exit strategies, succession plans, and troubled investment resolution. Charles focuses on providing clients with creative and practical solutions, working with outside experts to provide practical and efficient solutions for his clients.

Charles is also a journalist and deep-sea explorer. He serves as corporate counsel for Wreck Diving Magazine where he plans, manages, and participates in expeditions for wreck discovery and recovery. Charles graduated from the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC  with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting – Marketing and earned a J.D. degree from the Charleston School of Law and a Masters of Laws (LL.M.) degree in Admiralty Law from the Charleston School of Law.

Charles is admitted to practice in Washington DC, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida and is admitted to practice in the Federal Court system in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Middle District of North Carolina, and the Western District of North Carolina. The United States District Court of South Carolina. The United States District Court of Northern Georgia (Atlanta District), The United States District of Southern Georgia, United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia. The United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida, the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, and the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Mr. George is also licensed to practice in the United States Court of International Trade in New York City which has nationwide jurisdiction over civil actions arising out of the customs and international trade laws of the United States.

MEMBER

• District of Columbia Bar
• North Carolina Bar
• South Carolina Bar
• Georgia Bar
• Florida Bar
• Aiken County SC Bar
• Charleston County SC Bar
• American Bar Association
• Federal Bar Association
• The Customs and International Trade Bar Association

Charles is fluent in all German dialects, both oral and written, as well as conversational in Spanish.